ticalc.org has plenty of games. Not necessarily great games, but games nonetheless. Not coincidentally, they also have quite a few math-related programs available for download...
I have one pressing question, and a follow-up, that may determine whether I buy any products from theKompany. If you had Superman's powers, would you:
a) help Superman keep crime under control, or
b) battle Superman (and, indirectly, Linus) for world domination?
If you answered b), do you understand that the only way to defeat Superman, given equal powers, would be through some outside influence, and that, considering Superman's friends, one Debian developer probably won't give you the advantage you need?
Everyone seems to agree on this, but does anyone ever take the first step? It's difficult for one person to get a school to change its ways, but what if your LUG, as a team, offered to help a local school set up a free software system? Maybe help work with the kids once a week/month?
Not only would this wean kids from Microsoft, it would give you potential new members and possibly some support from the community.
But they're staying in Office XP, yet not in IE6? I thought Office XP used the IE component for rendering HTML?
No, silly! That would mean that IE and Windows were 'seamlessly integrated' and that Windows wouldn't function properly without IE and Microsoft would be forced to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows...
wait a minute...seems there is something a little funny about that, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
If you can somehow trick them into saying "mexapixel" backward, they'll be sent back to their own dimension. Maybe we can grab their $200,000 display as they're fading away!
Them:"Lexipaxem...Oh, crap!" Us (grabbing display):"See you at the pawn shop...SUCKER!"
Is the boat in the lake?
Does he throw the block into the lake?
Did he check to make sure nobody is swimming underwater around the boat?
Assuming he's in the water, throwing the block into the water, wouldn't the level stay the same? Based on my experiments with a chunk of donut, my coffee cup, and a tiny paper boat (an experiment about as scientific as the Pepsi Challenge), that's my guess.
Take all of the money that they've spent on this research and use it to buy thousands of flyswatters, so the scientists can run around the fields and kill the moths. They'll never be able to completely eliminate the moths, so we're not wiping out the entire population. Even better, the muscles the scientists get from running around killing moths will allow them to attract females and mate, thus producing more scientists. The circle of symbiosis has to start somewhere.
Keep in mind that without computers we'd have a heck of a time getting a rocket to Pluto, and he'd probably just paint his name on the side of the rocket and convince the Plutonians that he "innovated" it. Our best bet would be to tie a few dozen now-defunct computers to him (make them Macs to really piss him off), and toss him into Puget Sound.
Also: what would become of SETI@Home? Would they just ask us to spend our idle minutes squinting at the sky?
Microsoft has redefined the word "innovation" to mean "mimicing our competition and driving them out of business".
Microsoft has redefined the word "innovation" to mean "buying our competition's five-year-old technology, slapping a 'Microsoft' sticker over their name, and calling it 'the future of technology'".
By this definition, I guess Linux does stifle "innovation".
The fact that they're trying to hire Linux programmers says so much more than any Microsoft press release ever could.
But think about who would be most likely to use it. Your friendly neighborhood hypochondriac used to have to buy a book to find out what was wrong; then came the www and easy-access medical-advice sites; now you come along and give him/her instant all-day access to answers from a real live doctor! As much as I'd like to be able to chat with a real doctor when I'm too nauseous to talk on the phone, I'd hate to have to fight to be heard through a crowd of these people and you would never get any work done. Maybe a forum on your site would be better.
What are they trying to compute?
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I installed Juno (without checking the EULA, of course...) because my DSL won't be hooked up until the 5th. Suddenly is (not responding), won't stop trying to connect, can't be killed, and Windows won't shut down because of it.
I have the formula they're after:
Free ISP + Bad Idea = No More Company
That didn't take thousands of processors after all.
"I'm in charge of policy" == I can't define "scalability", but I have a pretty good idea what it is. I saw a diagram of a network in a book once.
"...superior reliability and extended scalability that Windows 2000 offers..." == My watch is more accurate because it's newer and more expensive than yours.
"...they will lose their worth to us..." == Their convincing arguments against upgrading may expose my ignorance of the subject.
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That's good, because there's nothing like having a top-of-the-line imaging program tell you that your grandmother looks like Andrew Jackson. Yikes!
Somewhere, Bea Arthur's grandson sheds a silent tear as he tries to scan family pictures.
Hackers in China... hey, it looks like China is the new Russia!
I don't think so... "In Soviet China, government computer hacks YOU!" doesn't sound as cool.
More like a John Basedow commercial on TechTV, isn't it?
Is some guy wearing a sign going to jump in front of me and start blathering on about casinos or cheap travel discounts?
I'd love to be there the first time someone gets the "punch the monkey" ad.
Considering the average
I guess it's just going to be a pocket logo.
It's 'du jour'. Someone should standardize French.
Manhole covers are round to fit the holes.
"I send you this electronic greeting card in order to have your advice."
I think it's already been done. I could have sworn I saw 'Admiral Hollings' dancing around at Pirates of the Caribbean...
Still, you can't fault them for using congresspeople. At least they're experimenting with expendable humans before they come for the rest of us.
Make edits if the submitter mispells something, has poor grammar, or screws up the links.
Ooooh! Ooooh! Can I nominate him for the editor position? He'd be perfect!
ticalc.org has plenty of games. Not necessarily great games, but games nonetheless. Not coincidentally, they also have quite a few math-related programs available for download...
Am I missing something fundamental or is this really just GWB hedging against criticism?
I can't remember which of the aliens on the Simpsons said it, but it sounds a lot like Bush last night:
"Abortions for some, tiny American flags for others!"
I have one pressing question, and a follow-up, that may determine whether I buy any products from theKompany. If you had Superman's powers, would you:
a) help Superman keep crime under control, or
b) battle Superman (and, indirectly, Linus) for world domination?
If you answered b), do you understand that the only way to defeat Superman, given equal powers, would be through some outside influence, and that, considering Superman's friends, one Debian developer probably won't give you the advantage you need?
Seriously, though, thanks for some great apps!
We already have that. It's called mozilla-bin.
open/free software the way for schools to go
Everyone seems to agree on this, but does anyone ever take the first step? It's difficult for one person to get a school to change its ways, but what if your LUG, as a team, offered to help a local school set up a free software system? Maybe help work with the kids once a week/month?
Not only would this wean kids from Microsoft, it would give you potential new members and possibly some support from the community.
But they're staying in Office XP, yet not in IE6? I thought Office XP used the IE component for rendering HTML?
No, silly! That would mean that IE and Windows were 'seamlessly integrated' and that Windows wouldn't function properly without IE and Microsoft would be forced to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows...
wait a minute...seems there is something a little funny about that, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
If you can somehow trick them into saying "mexapixel" backward, they'll be sent back to their own dimension. Maybe we can grab their $200,000 display as they're fading away!
Them: "Lexipaxem...Oh, crap!"
Us (grabbing display): "See you at the pawn shop...SUCKER!"
Is the boat in the lake? Does he throw the block into the lake? Did he check to make sure nobody is swimming underwater around the boat? Assuming he's in the water, throwing the block into the water, wouldn't the level stay the same? Based on my experiments with a chunk of donut, my coffee cup, and a tiny paper boat (an experiment about as scientific as the Pepsi Challenge), that's my guess.
Take all of the money that they've spent on this research and use it to buy thousands of flyswatters, so the scientists can run around the fields and kill the moths. They'll never be able to completely eliminate the moths, so we're not wiping out the entire population. Even better, the muscles the scientists get from running around killing moths will allow them to attract females and mate, thus producing more scientists. The circle of symbiosis has to start somewhere.
1. Put Bill Gates in a rocket
Keep in mind that without computers we'd have a heck of a time getting a rocket to Pluto, and he'd probably just paint his name on the side of the rocket and convince the Plutonians that he "innovated" it. Our best bet would be to tie a few dozen now-defunct computers to him (make them Macs to really piss him off), and toss him into Puget Sound.
Also: what would become of SETI@Home? Would they just ask us to spend our idle minutes squinting at the sky?
Microsoft has redefined the word "innovation" to mean "mimicing our competition and driving them out of business".
Microsoft has redefined the word "innovation" to mean "buying our competition's five-year-old technology, slapping a 'Microsoft' sticker over their name, and calling it 'the future of technology'".
By this definition, I guess Linux does stifle "innovation".
The fact that they're trying to hire Linux programmers says so much more than any Microsoft press release ever could.
But think about who would be most likely to use it. Your friendly neighborhood hypochondriac used to have to buy a book to find out what was wrong; then came the www and easy-access medical-advice sites; now you come along and give him/her instant all-day access to answers from a real live doctor! As much as I'd like to be able to chat with a real doctor when I'm too nauseous to talk on the phone, I'd hate to have to fight to be heard through a crowd of these people and you would never get any work done. Maybe a forum on your site would be better.
I installed Juno (without checking the EULA, of course...) because my DSL won't be hooked up until the 5th. Suddenly is (not responding), won't stop trying to connect, can't be killed, and Windows won't shut down because of it. I have the formula they're after: Free ISP + Bad Idea = No More Company That didn't take thousands of processors after all.
"I'm in charge of policy" == I can't define "scalability", but I have a pretty good idea what it is. I saw a diagram of a network in a book once.
"...superior reliability and extended scalability that Windows 2000 offers..." == My watch is more accurate because it's newer and more expensive than yours.
"...they will lose their worth to us..." == Their convincing arguments against upgrading may expose my ignorance of the subject.